{"id":1779,"date":"2013-01-03T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:20:41","slug":"being-fat-is-where-its-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/being-fat-is-where-its-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Being fat is where its at!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being overweight linked to lower risk of mortality<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/02\/health\/overweight-mortality\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/02\/health\/overweight-mortality\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I had talked about the relationship between being, shall we say, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Rubenesque\">Rubenesque<\/a>&#8216;, before, but I am not finding such a post.  This is not the first time I have found reports where being &#8216;well padded&#8217; had longer lifetimes, but this one seems to put the clinch on the idea.  Note, though, that what is considered &#8216;overweight&#8217; in the rest of the world is likely considered &#8216;normal weight&#8217; here in the blubber utopia of the world: the good old USofA.  I consider the likely benefit comes into play when you are old(er) and suffer a serious health complication (bad flu, pneumonia, bad fall, etc.) and are unable to eat well (or at all) yet your body has serious requirements for energy for repair.  &#8216;Skinny&#8217; people lack the several pounds of blubber needed to accommodate that energy requirement and as a consequence take longer to heal (or simply die outright) making them more frail and thus more subject to injury\/illness in the future.  I am entirely unimpressed with the study author&#8217;s idea that these &#8216;full bodied&#8217; people get better health care, I think it is simply due to having more resources on hand (or rather on butt or belly) when knocked up for a week or longer.  The average person burns around 2,000 calories a day just staying alive.  If you are seriously sick or injured, that calorie requirement might double or more!  With 3,500 calories per pound of blubber you can see that going a week without eating can result in some serious slimming.  Already slim?  Then your hopes of a robust recovery can be equally slim.<\/p>\n<p>All hail blubber butts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being overweight linked to lower risk of mortality http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/02\/health\/overweight-mortality\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 I thought I had talked about the relationship between being, shall we say, &#8216;Rubenesque&#8216;, before, but I am not finding such a post. This is not the first time I have found reports where being &#8216;well padded&#8217; had longer lifetimes, but this one seems to put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/being-fat-is-where-its-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being fat is where its at!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-science","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}